The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-05
Sacred to the Memory of
TEXAS JACK,
tJ. b. oMoHUNDRol.
Died June 70 1850.
80. Pneumonia.

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The inscription occupies but a small place
on the slab, which is fairly covered with
artistic work. First there is a good repre-
sentation of a cartridge belt, with pistols
crossed and bowieknife sheathed Below is
sketched the trusty Winchester, and then
the head of Texas Jacks favorite horse, yell
low Chief
On the reverse of the slab are fingers
pointing Heavenward, and the inscription,
Rest III peace. Remembered by his young
friends, j. j. Levy and NJ G.. Lew III
Texas Jack had designed his own head
board he could not have done better. His
wife, in respect for his memory, retired
from the stage.
THE DECORATION IDEA DEVELOPED.
To the credit of Leadville let it be said,
her dead are not forgotten. Decoration
day means more here than the remembrance
of those who fell in battle. This city did
not come into existence until twelve years
after the war was over, but there are few
places where Decoration-day is so generally
observed i'll literal sense At the foot of
the Homestake monument there is great
wreath of evergreen bearing the date of
May 80, 1887, and the inscription
Decorated in Memory of the HomeStake
Boys
But little less imposing than the Home
stake monument is the one erected by the
employees of the Chrysolite mine to their
fallen companions" And here are nine
names and the recent decoration which is
general throughout the cemetery One of
the Chrysolite victims was impaled by. an
iron pipe, which went through his body and
bored its way into the timbering of the
shaft so far that it could not be loosened by
hand. And there the brave miner stood
pinned to the timbers, fully conscious
and calmly giving direction. Not until a
rope was fastened to the pipe and the engine
started was he freed from his place of tor
ture. The carbonate hills have furnished
many hero. Two of the Chrysolte vic
tins died from bad air. One was over
come by the gas in the shaft and comrade
went down after him He raised the I'M
conscious man in his arms, put him in the
bucket, gave the signal to hoist and fell
back. The buckets reached the top, but it
contained only a dead man. The wouldbe
rescuer had given his in a vain effort to save
his friend, but he was just as much hero
in Leadville's calendar as if he had fully sue
ceeded. Why shouldn't such graves be
honorede
AMURDERED MARSHAL.
Side by side lie the O'Connor brothers
George Edwards monument reads: "Mur-
dered while faithfully discharging his duty
as Marshal of this city, April 25 1873
are keeping his memory green by a lawsuit
over the property he left.
A conspicuous shaft with crossed swords
shows where lie the bones Of Col Randolph
Carpenter. He was the model militiaman
of Leadville, and was shot while trying
to hold some property in dispute at Buena
Vista.
There is stone in the centre of we'll
kept square to show where the four Prettie
hOVc htlpiaH Thaxy ftx-o irco f
brothers. Louis, Nicola, and Joseph were
killed by a ''cave-in" at the Col Sellers
mine and the fourth fell off bucket ut the
same mine.
Christmas eve w. A. Morris started to
dance and fell into a snow-hidden shaft, not
to be found until month afterward MANY
go that way" comments the philosophical
gravedigger. These hills are full of holes
and the snow covers them. James r. Mil
burn, a SURVEYOR, engaged in running a line,
stepped into one of these pitfalls and per-
ished.
THE DEATH-RoLL OF THE MINES.
The mining business is responsible for
long list of fatalities varied in character.
Here is Michael Mckinley, who was work
ing on the top of ground in an ore bin. The
heavy ore came down upon him aud killed
him. A piece of porphyry fell on Matt NAL
10y one Sunday and his next grave neighbor
in the cemetery was blown up by giant pow
der the following Sunday Louis Sherman's
body was frozen stiff at the corner of the
cemetery. He had started to cross the valley
one night from Leadville to Sugar Loaf
fountain. Thomas Liddicoat fell $50 feet
down shaft. j. M. Gregory fell off his
wagon.
John Lugenbill, faro-dealer, was shot
and fell across the doorway of the Bank
Exchange, Edward Frodsham was hung
by the vigilance committee Eugene Met
ter was shot over in Lake Park and Walter
e. Bersen stopped bullet at Montezuma.
Cyprus Mitchell fired the cartridge that
ended his life. p. II. Buckley had cleaned
up" drawn all the money coming to him,
and was going to leave for his old home in
Wisconsin in the morning. He started out
for one farewell night on State street, and
was found dead with empty pockets in the
morning
And thus the obituaries run almost with
out end and no two alike.
MY PARTNER.
Very frequently there appears a
neat headstono with an inscription
like this, with achange of names:
"Janies Monaghan; erected to his memory
bv Thomas w Brown" Imagination
readily supplies the rest of the story of
my Partner" One of the most artistic Of
the smaller monuments bears only the name
of the dead and below it Friendships
Token"
Out of all these 5000 graves, less than 100
-ninety-four, TO be accurate-are in the
potter's field One of the ninety four is the
resting place of c. Cummins Leadville ira
dition has it that this man was once able to
draw his check for S150, 900. He was Ken
tucliian and for time dealt in fine horses in
Louisville. Fast horses, fast women, and
good red liquor" is the unwritten epitaph
IN this case.
There are few unknowns, scarce twenty
in the who'd place, rather strange TO tell,
but stopping beside one of them the SEXTON
said "Now, here is the grave Of man I'd
give a months wages to know something
about. lie was well dressed, gooa-looking,
and educated. Any one could soc he was a
ani had been in fine circum-
stances. Ono day he walked into pawn
shop uptown and asked 10 SEQ some revolv-
ers. He was shown several, and picked
out one which he said would do. Then he
called for cartridges, and the shoplseeper
could find ouly one of the right calibre